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Lot 61

An Apulian red-figure hydria

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,650 inc. premium

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An Apulian red-figure hydria
Related to the Underworld Painter, circa 350-330 B.C.
The central figure standing in an Ionic naiskos wearing a chiton with a himation draped in the crook of her arms, her hair dressed in a kekryphalos and stephane, holding a pyxis in each hand, flanked by a young woman to the left, wearing a chiton with a kekryphalos and stephane in her hair, carrying a wreath and a mirror, standing on a dotted baseline with a kalathos beneath, the figure to the right standing above a pyxis, wearing a chiton with a kekryphalos and stephane in her hair, holding a flowering branch in her left hand and a drum in her right, rosettes in the field, palmettes on the reverse and under the handles, the neck with sprigs of berried laurel and a central rosette, ovolo around the exterior rim, rays around the handles, a band of meander along the baseline, details in added white, 59cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, London, formed 1980-late 1990s.

For a similar scene on an Apulian red-figure hydria see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Frankfurt am Main, 3, 10, pl. 2416, no. 3.1-3.

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